comrades

NADEL MEMBER: Thank you Honourable Chairperson, members of the Commission, the Minister of Justice, friends, colleagues, comrades and everybody else.

As soon as Kuki opened the door the house filled up with people, young men, whom I could refer to as Comrades, who were masked so I could not identify them. Because it was a big house some of them went to the kitchen as well and there were only two of us there. A young man with a cap came to me, ...

MR MKWANAZI: There was a group of comrades who accosted me, they assaulted me and they told me to tell them where my friend was. They claimed that we were members of IFP. I managed though to escape from them and a certain friend of mine called Mapondo advised me to go to Kwamadala Hostel, I did ...

MRS GQINEBE: On the 19th of March 1990 the Comrades were giving people some stands, vacant stands and as they were soldiering that, I do not know what happened later on, but the police came and the police started shooting and people

activities. I can mention some of them. He participated in the killing of the Zwane family at Zone 12, he also played a role in the killing of the comrades and one of the comrades was Daddy Keswa, who was a member of Umkhonto weSizwe. He left the township to stay somewhere ...

At that time, I remember distinctly, the ANC and comrades here were aware that the major sources of insecurity to communities, the major sources of attack against communities, were actually fermented and organised and perpetrated by elements from within the Security Forces of the State.

MR JWAMBE: Yes. 1106 was a house for the comrades where they would meet regularly for meetings. Comrade Pinki Phindi would go there regularly. They would teach us about tactics to fight the enemy, to defend ourselves. They taught us these tactics only for defence. 1106 was a well-respected ...

... thereafter? --- He realised that they were having internal fights. They said they were Inkatha during the day but in the evening they were Comrades and they turned against them until such time that he had to run away and he joined the ...

MRS KALOLI: At the end of 1985 KTC was burning. There were Witdoeke in KTC and the comrades came to my house. They said to my son let us go and extinguish the fire in KTC. So they helped me get out the clothes. He left with them, and he left. He stayed there for a while. We heard gun shots and ...

... personal or why admit the murder was political and the robbery personal, why not just say they were both personal if the order was to keep your comrades away from it as far as ...

... was - he was one of the commanders or their commander in Swaziland, had given them that instruction to kill Ben because Ben had basically sold out ...

"Then I asked them what they want I must do. They said I must tell them about the comrades that I came with from exile. They wanted to know where they are staying and what is their job and what is their deployment."

to walk on foot. As I was walking, there was some angry shouts, the Witdoeke are there and they already are in site KTC and we ran with a number of comrades who were there and we went towards KTC, next to the (indistinct), to stop at (indistinct). There were two Hippos. They came very close to ...

MR GULENI: An R4 rifle. We followed the comrades who were coming from Umtata as they came to the office as we were still reporting about this story, and when Mr Mfeketho was taking me home, these comrades proceeded to the school, after getting the report. After coming back from home, when we ...

MR DUMA: No. I gave the orders direct to Mr Biko. I ordered them, I sent one of our comrades to make a contact that, to Mr Yengeni and Mr Veveza as well as Mogeti, that I want to meet with them in Zukile's house around three in the afternoon, knowing that at that time they will expect me to be ...

... I talked it out with Pumelele and whilst we were still confused and having an intention to do something in retaliation of Comrade Chris, the comrades from Flagstaff arrived having the same idea. It's then when we began to plan as to what, how are we going to retaliate and as it has ...

Yes, I am going to tell the story where it all started. In 1985 when the struggle started here in Colesberg. My father was one of the comrades here in Colesberg who decided in 1985 who were being harassed by the police and constantly detained. He would be detained for fourteen days. And that ...

I was taken in Whittlesea so they should direct those questions to the guys who were or comrades who were living in Queenstown. But they couldn’t believe what I was telling them they were saying that I had more information because in 1979 - 1979 around December I was arrested in Queenstown in ...

to prepare myself by getting into top physical conditionand more importantly, I was instructed to get weapons and ammunition in Umtata,Transkei from comrades at the APLA High Command. I cannot recall the names ofthese persons, I was given their code names and I cannot remember them any longer.I ...

MR BIKO: I went to reconnoitre the target, the place and check the target for two days. On the third day I was given an order to go and attack the target. There were other comrades that I was going to meet with from Zukile, three comrades. I was going to meet with them.